The post-credits scene of VisionQuest saw the long-awaited return of Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen). Believed dead at the end of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness when she let the ruins of Mount Wundagore crush her, it turns out that Doctor Doom has magically revived her. He comes to her seemingly lifeless body and says, “Scarlet Witch… awaken. Your powers will be mine.”” Doom and Wanda together? This can’t be good. But it certainly lines up with Wanda’s Marvel Comics history. And it suggests we are getting an adaptation of a very important story in Wanda’s history, Avengers: The Children’s Crusade, where she becomes the would-be “Bride of Doom,” and key to his world-conquering plans.
The MCU Already Loosely Adapted Wanda’s Seminal Stories in Avengers: Disassembled and House of M
The early 2000s were rough for Wanda Maximoff in the pages of Marvel Comics. In the storyline Avengers: Disassembled by Brian Michael Bendis, the mystic Avenger discovered that she and Vision once had twin boys, Tommy and Billy, and when they disappeared, the witch Agatha Harkness cast a memory-wiping spell on her. When she found out that her memories were tampered with and that she once had a family, she lost her sanity. Losing control of her powers, using chaos magic, she destroyed Avengers Mansion and killed several teammates. The Avengers broke up over this devastating loss, and Magneto took his catatonic daughter away to nurse her back to health.
Eventually, Wanda used her reality-warping powers to create a world where she and her family had their fondest wishes granted, in the series House of M. This was another story from writer Brian Michael Bendis. In this new world she crafted, mutants ruled, with her father, Magneto, as king. Humans became second-class citizens. Eventually, the heroes of Earth broke free from Wanda’s fake reality, and attempted to take her out. In retaliation, she morphed reality back to the way it was, but with 99% of mutants depowered. She then vanished from the face of the Earth entirely. And she remained missing for over five years.
Avengers: The Children’s Crusade Reintroduced Wanda as the Would-Be Bride of Doctor Doom
In the 2010 Allan Heinberg/Jim Cheung series Avengers: The Children’s Crusade, Wanda and Vision’s sons Billy and Tommy set out on a quest to find her. In the time since House of M, Billy and Tommy had been revealed as being alive, as the teen heroes Wiccan and Speed. They were members of the Young Avengers, formed by the Vision’s protocol to recruit new heroes in case the Avengers ever disbanded. They find that Wanda has been living in Latveria, in the kingdom of Victor von Doom. Now an amnesiac, she remains completely unaware of her past or her actions. Doom has been siphoning off her immense magical abilities, and announces plans to marry her and make her his queen.
Wanda’s Children Billy and Tommy Help Free Her From Doom’s Control
Wiccan, Speed, and their grandfather Magneto join them and the Young Avengers in an effort to find the missing Wanda. Billy believes there’s no way his mother would have done the horrible things she did without being possessed in some way. This happened before in many earlier stories. But the Avengers insist that Doctor Strange found no signs of possession. However, in this story, we learn that Wanda had tapped into the cosmic, god-like “Life Force,” much as the X-Man Jean Grey had merged with the cosmic Phoenix Force. That’s how her powers were augmented to the levels they were, which allowed her reality warping in House of M. With the use of magic, Billy is able to restore his mother’s memory. She ultimately turns on Doom before the wedding, and begins a long redemption arc. One that continues to this day.
Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars May Adapt the Doom and Wanda Story from The Children’s Crusade
So what does this mean for the MCU? Well, we’ve already seen some of these things adapted, although not neccessarily in the order they were in the comics. In WandaVision, Wanda created the Westview hex. It altered the reality around her, creating her version of a “perfect” world to cope with her loss. This is a more dialed-back version of what she did in House of M. In Multiverse of Madness, Wanda absorbs the power of the Darkhold. She loses her mind at the loss of her children, doing anything to get them back. And she kills a lot of people in Avengers: Disassembled, just as she did in Multiverse of Madness.
The post-credits finale of VisionQuest has Doctor Doom finding Wanda after her massive meltdown and self-destruction on Mount Wundagore and reviving her. It also ends with her children, Billy and Tommy, determined to find her. It’s all the basic setup of Avengers: The Children’s Crusade. It would make sense if Doom needed Wanda’s immense power to fulfill his plans for the Multiverse. Especially her ability to reshape reality with a hex, to reshape a post-Doomsday Battleworld in his own image.
We Could See Doom Use Wanda To Create a Much Bigger Hex on Battleworld
When we get to Doomsday, one of the Latverian Witches we know about may very well be Wanda. Perhaps a version of her that had her memory erased by Doom. And it stands to reason he would use her power to shape the reality of Battleworld in Secret Wars. A world populated by heroes we know and love, who don’t remember the reality before, similar to House of M. And we could foresee Vision, Billy, and Tommy breaking through the spell, and setting Wanda on a path of redemption in the MCU. One very similar to the one she had in the comics. Right now, all signs are pointing to Avengers: The Children’s Crusade at least partially being adapted for the MCU. And we’re thrilled that this iconic storyline may become MCU canon.
In the meantime, you can catch up with this comic story and get ready for Doomsday.
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